JCS Ballet Academy

Exodus: Broken Chains 2024

ACT I - Israel’s Suffering in Egypt, Moses was born - Exodus 1-2

The children of ISRAEL multiply and are placed in bondage by the Egyptians.

Pharaoh seeks to destroy the sons born to Hebrew women and Moses was born of Levite parents. But Moses was chosen and is saved by God. He is raised by Pharaoh's daughter. When Moses was grown, he went and looked at the burdens of his people and saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew. Moses kills and hides the Egyptian. When this was known, Pharaoh seeks to kill Moses.

Moses flees to Midian.

Exodus: 2:23-25 said: "During those many days the king of Egypt died, and the people of Israel groaned because of their slavery and cried out for help. Their cry for rescue trom slavery came up to God. And God heard their groaning and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with jacob.

God saw the people of Israel and God knew."

Ballet in Five Acts

Act II

Moses Calling/The Angel of the Lord Burning Bush

And Moses said, "' will turn aside to see this great sight, why the bush is not burned." When the Lord saw that he turned aside to see, God called to him out of the bush, "Moses, Moses!" And he said, "Here I am." Then he said, "Do not come near; take your sandals off your feet, for the place on which you are standing is holy ground." And he said, "I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob." And Moses hid his face, for he was afraid to look at God.

Then the Lord said,

"I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt and have heard their cry

because of their taskmasters. I know their sufferings, and I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land to a good and broad land, a land flowing with milk and honey, to the place of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites.

And now, behold, the cry of the people of Israel has come to me, and I have also seen the oppression with which the Egyptians oppress them. Come, I will send you to Pharaoh that you may bring my people, the children of Israel, out of Egypt."

Then Moses said to God, "If I come to the people of Israel and say to them, The God of your fathers has sent me to you, and they ask me, What is his name? what shall I say to them?" God said to Moses, "' am who lam." And He said, "Say this to the people of Israel: 1 am has sent me to you." God also said to Moses, "Say this to the people of Israel: The Lord, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you! This is my name forever, and thus I am to be remembered throughout all generations. Exodus 3:-310, 13-15